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Bryce Harper Cards Push Upward

His name has been on collectors’ minds since he was a high school player on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Notoriety in this day and age is sometimes hard to live up to but after a sizzling start, finding the best Bryce Harper baseball cards has become a priority for those who like to buy and hold modern era cardboard.

While some may place Mike Trout on a higher pedestal (including Harper himself), it appears Harper will not be the ‘bust’ some had proclaimed after a thumb injury curtailed his 2014 season. Few have been hotter since early in the 2015 season.

Harper’s best rookie cards and his earliest issues are seeing a strong uptick online.

Searching Harper baseball cards on eBay will inevitably lead to his most popular prospect cards: the 2011 Bowman Chrome autographs. The various numbered parallels decrease in price as the serial numbers go up—or no longer exist.

Harper’s first Bowman Chrome autographs can be found on:

Base Prospects: The cheapest way to land one of the more sought after Harper signed cards.

Gold Refractor Parallel (# to 50): The Gold parallels are always popular and with only 50, demand will always be greater than supply. A few thousand dollars might get you in the door but as always, higher graded cards are more.

Red Refractor Parallel (# to 5) and Superfractor (1/1): The odds are obviously very long—deep into the thousands—but the Red and Superfractor versions of Harper’s Chrome debut are holy grail type cards.

Of course, there is a massive supply of other Harper cards in the market already but some, because of scarcity, early pro career issue date and the popularity of the sets they’re part of, will be best including:

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About Rich Mueller

Rich is the editor and founder of Sports Collectors Daily. A broadcaster and writer for more than 30 years and a collector for even longer than that, he's usually typing something somewhere. Type him back at [email protected]